TY  - GEN
TI  - Exploring the potential of a multi-level approach to improve capability for continuous organizational improvement and learning in a Swedish healthcare region
AU  - Nyström, Monica E
AU  - Höög, Elisabet
AU  - Garvare, R
AU  - Andersson Bäck, M
AU  - Terris, D. D
AU  - Hansson, J
PY  - 2018
PB  - Umeå universitet, Epidemiologi och global hälsa; Department of Learning, Informatics, Management and Ethics, Medical Management Centre, Karolinska Institutet; Department of Learning, Informatics, Management and Ethics, Medical Management Centre, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
LA  - eng
KW  - Change management
KW  - Continuous quality improvement
KW  - Health care
KW  - Organizational development
KW  - Organizational learning
KW  - Social services
KW  - Health Care Service and Management
KW  - Health Policy and Services and Health Economy
KW  - Hälso- och sjukvårdsorganisation
KW  - hälsopolitik och hälsoekonomi
KW  - Public Health
KW  - Global Health
KW  - Social Medicine and Epidemiology
KW  - Folkhälsovetenskap
KW  - global hälsa
KW  - socialmedicin och epidemiologi
AB  - BACKGROUND: Eldercare and care of people with functional impairments is organized by the municipalities in Sweden. Improving care in these areas is complex, with multiple stakeholders and organizations. Appropriate strategies to develop capability for continuing organizational improvement and learning (COIL) are needed. The purpose of our study was to develop and pilot-test a flexible, multilevel approach for COIL capability building and to identify what it takes to achieve changes in key actors' approaches to COIL. The approach, named "Sustainable Improvement and Development through Strategic and Systematic Approaches" (SIDSSA), was applied through an action-research and action-learning intervention. METHODS: The SIDSSA approach was tested in a regional research and development (R&D) unit, and in two municipalities handling care of the elderly and people with functional impairments. Our approach included a multilevel strategy, development loops of five flexible phases, and an action-learning loop. The approach was designed to support systems understanding, strategic focus, methodological practices, and change process knowledge - all of which required double-loop learning. Multiple qualitative methods, i.e., repeated interviews, process diaries, and documents, provided data for conventional content analyses. RESULTS: The new approach was successfully tested on all cases and adopted and sustained by the R&D unit. Participants reported new insights and skills. The development loop facilitated a sense of coherence and control during uncertainty, improved planning and problem analysis, enhanced mapping of context and conditions, and supported problem-solving at both the individual and unit levels. The systems-level view and structured approach helped participants to explain, motivate, and implement change initiatives, especially after working more systematically with mapping, analyses, and goal setting. CONCLUSIONS: An easily understood and generalizable model internalized by key organizational actors is an important step before more complex development models can be implemented. SIDSSA facilitated individual and group learning through action-learning and supported systems-level views and structured approaches across multiple organizational levels. Active involvement of diverse organizational functions and levels in the learning process was facilitated. However, the time frame was too short to fully test all aspects of the approach, specifically in reaching beyond the involved managers to front-line staff and patients.
UR  - http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-148984
DO  - 10.1186/s12913-018-3129-3
UR  - https://www.pollux-fid.de/r/base-ftumeauniv:oai:DiVA.org:umu-148984
H1  - Pollux (Fachinformationsdienst Politikwissenschaft)
ER  -